Stephen Birmingham

• Aug-1983
• / General Fiction
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A poignant and unforgettable rags-to-riches family saga following three generations of a remarkable clan from downtown ghetto to Park Avenue opulence   Marrying Jack Auerbach was Essie Litsky’s salvation, enabling her to break free of her stri...

• Dec-1985
• / General Fiction
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Edith - the grande dame, daughter of old Meredith Harper himself. From the mansion under the blue skies of St. Thomas, she had watched her mother try to break into the ranks of the old money, and then lost her own daughter to the restless, golden soc...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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An aging California vintner is determined to protect her empire from a hostile family takeover and the dark secrets that could destroy everything she loves At age seventy-four, Assaria “Sari” LeBaron is still a force to be reckoned with. For deca...

• Apr-1989
• / General Fiction
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From the New York Times�"bestselling author of “Our Crowd”: A novel of a powerful family, a cosmetics empire, and the dark secrets that could destroy both. Mireille “Mimi” Myerson took her grandfather’s struggling cosmetics company and tur...

• Jan-1991
• / General Fiction
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A powerful family’s media empire is rocked by betrayal and greed in this fast-paced novel from the #1 New York Times�"bestselling author. Alexandra Rothman was a smalltown girl from the Midwest -- until she married into New York City’s most powe...

• Jul-1993
• / General Fiction
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The suspicious death of a New York retail tycoon reveals dangerous cracks in a family’s foundation in this page-turning novel of wealth, jealousy, betrayal, and murder One of New York’s most elegant and exclusive retail establishments, Tarkington...

• Aug-1997
• / General Fiction
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A gripping novel of dark family secrets, bigotry, lust, and lies set in the world of the phenomenally wealthy The Liebling family is among the wealthiest in New York, but in the eyes of “old money” gentile aristocrats like the patrician Van Degan...

• Sep-2016
• / Women's Fiction
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Barbara Greer is a suspenseful portrait of a quaint suburban marriage -- and the betrayal that threatens to tear it apart. Barbara is the blue chip product of a Connecticut mansion, but her marriage to solidly middle class salesman Carson takes her t...

• Sep-2016
• / Mystery
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Fast Start, Fast Finish is a novel of suspense, art, marriage, family, and the hollowness of suburbia, from one the country’s most important documentarians of the well-to-do. Charlie Lord is handsome, smart and devastatingly sophisticated. Why does...

• Sep-2016
• / General Fiction
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In this short story collection, the acclaimed author of Our Crowd offers fourteen darkly funny and poignant tales of the human heart. Stephen Birmingham is renowned for his penetrating examinations of America’s upper classes. Here, he proves himsel...

• Sep-2016
• / Mystery
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The Towers of Love is a suspenseful family drama set among the well-to-do schemers of a Connecticut suburb. When Hugh Carey moves home to take stock of his failing marriage, he is reunited with Edrita Everett Smith, the girl next door who got away. B...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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An ambitious young man seeks his fortune in 1950s California in this New York Times�"bestselling author’s classic novel of love and disillusionment. As the heir apparent to his family’s mercantile empire, Jimmy Keefe is guaranteed a bright futur...

• Apr-2024
• / Literary
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Cultural shifts of the late twentieth century reveal dark secrets at an elite prep school, in this posthumously discovered novel by the author of “Our Crowd.” Located in bucolic Connecticut, the Crittenden School has long held a venerable reputat...

• / General Fiction
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A history of the Manhattan building and its famous tenants, from Lauren Bacall to John Lennon, by the New York Times�"bestselling author of “Our Crowd”. When Singer sewing machine tycoon Edward Clark built a luxury apartment building on Manhatta...